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it reminded americans that what unites us is stronger than what divides us. >> you wrote that -- you wrote on daily beast this is part of the joe plumber-ization. of american politics. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that we're elevating folks that become some symbols of prefab populism. we're taking folks, a big agenda gets attached to them, without necessarily any deeper significance. and what i think we do need to -- media or politics, we need to lead, not follow the crowd. in the internet age, have violence or sex and you'll get people's attention. it's tougher to get people to pay attention to solving long-term problems. we need to get people to do that. >> the leader of the country, president obama is getting a lot of attention. you're a crisis management expert. it's september 12th now. what would you advise the president to do? the economy is topic number one. we have elections coming up in a couple of months. should he revisit this topic and the mosque issue right now, past 9/11? >> absolutely. and one of the things that i would have counseled him very early on,
it reminded americans that what unites us is stronger than what divides us. >> you wrote that -- you wrote on daily beast this is part of the joe plumber-ization. of american politics. what do you mean by that? >> what i mean is that we're elevating folks that become some symbols of prefab populism. we're taking folks, a big agenda gets attached to them, without necessarily any deeper significance. and what i think we do need to -- media or politics, we need to lead, not follow the...
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us. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you very much. i want to ask you what's just happened. the house minority leader, john boehner has said that he would consider extending the middle class tax cuts. if the only option i have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, i'll vote for it, he said, on "face the nation" this morning. what is your reaction? >> well, i haven't seen the comments. but i noticed the qualifier if my only choice is. if he -- if he's truly saying that we can, as the president called for, get a broad consensus to extend the middle class tax cuts, we should do it. we shouldn't hold that hostage for the argument about the tax cuts just for the very, very highest income people. if he's for that, i would happy. in the past, we have seen some of these circumstances in which what appears to be the offer of doing the sensible thing in the light of day, there's a little bit of a feeling of, well, if the president's for it, i'm against it, then it falls apart. >> he does
us. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you very much. i want to ask you what's just happened. the house minority leader, john boehner has said that he would consider extending the middle class tax cuts. if the only option i have is to vote for some of those tax reductions, i'll vote for it, he said, on "face the nation" this morning. what is your reaction? >> well, i haven't seen the comments. but i noticed the qualifier if my only choice is. if he -- if he's truly...
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or send us an e-mail. can you walk through the process of how these afghan troops are being trained? >> well, there are different programs for the army, different ones for the police. there are different training centers around the country that are staffed by u.s. and nato troops and by contractors. there are a variety of programs . the recruitment programs, the big push that general caldwell instituted since he took over last year is actually literacy. this is a country with very low literacy rates. you can't -- the people that i spoke to, literacy is the key to training because you can't really train people if they can't read. >> maryland, good morning, on the democrat's line with caller: good morning. several years ago, we heard a lot about a group called the northern alliance. and i think that some of their representatives would come over and talk about their vision for afghanistan. could you tell me whatever happened to them? and are we developing relationships with them also? thank you so much. host:
or send us an e-mail. can you walk through the process of how these afghan troops are being trained? >> well, there are different programs for the army, different ones for the police. there are different training centers around the country that are staffed by u.s. and nato troops and by contractors. there are a variety of programs . the recruitment programs, the big push that general caldwell instituted since he took over last year is actually literacy. this is a country with very low...
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a friend has e-mailed the photos to us. as far as we know, he and his 17-year-old son william have not been seen since the explosion. friends say they have searched all around the shelter and called around to hospitals but have not been able to find them. the father and son lived on claremont drive, the hardest hit area of that disaster. >>> coming up at 7:00 on today at the bay, could it have been prevented. a pg&e document with explosive details about the gas line in san bruno. that story and all the day's top news coming up at 7:00. right now, back to the "today" show. >>> we're back on this sunday morning. september 12th, 2010. outside on the plaza i'm >>> we're back on this sunday morning.ç september 12th, 2010. outside on the plaza i'm jenna wolf with carl quintanilla filling in for lester this morning. and doing a mighty fine job. >> it's nice to be with you, as always. >> so nice to be standing next to you as well. >>> coming up, new details emerging about the royal wedding of prince william and kate middleton. th
a friend has e-mailed the photos to us. as far as we know, he and his 17-year-old son william have not been seen since the explosion. friends say they have searched all around the shelter and called around to hospitals but have not been able to find them. the father and son lived on claremont drive, the hardest hit area of that disaster. >>> coming up at 7:00 on today at the bay, could it have been prevented. a pg&e document with explosive details about the gas line in san bruno....
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to keep us safe. and you don't play games with that. so i hardly think we're the ones who elevated this story. but it is, in the age of the internet, something that can cause us profound damage around the world, and so we've got to take it seriously. with respect to health care, what i said during the debate is the same thing i'm saying now and it's the same thing i will say three or four years from now. bending the cost curve on health care is hard to do. we've got hundreds of thousands of providers and doctors and systems and insurers. and what we did was we took every idea out there about how to reduce or at least slow the costs of health care over time. but i said at the time, it wasn't going to happen tomorrow, it wasn't going to happen next year. it took us decades to get into a position where our health care costs were going up 6, 7, 10 percent a year. and so our goal is to slowly bring down those costs. now, we've done so also by making sure that 31 million people who aren't getting health ins
to keep us safe. and you don't play games with that. so i hardly think we're the ones who elevated this story. but it is, in the age of the internet, something that can cause us profound damage around the world, and so we've got to take it seriously. with respect to health care, what i said during the debate is the same thing i'm saying now and it's the same thing i will say three or four years from now. bending the cost curve on health care is hard to do. we've got hundreds of thousands of...